Carolina Watchman

              tof tffle c.4bolwj watchhair year two dollars paynble in ..- paid in advance two dollars '■„.., be charged i!'.vce"^||]st.rted.*ii 1 for the first and 2o co " ( c subsequent insertion courtorders r 7 ;, higher than these rales a lib j 7 those who advertise by the year editor must be post paid ■ ■" ■ ; plank roads v joseph b wake engineering vj,.c to those proposing lo build a 1 i |» first ami foremost to obtain the ' | ,. uood engineer and give no heed ''' ',' ' nts of many that an engineer is liv — arguing that the cosl is . unlit t ""'.' d " ' ,, and may mure profitably be used a,"ru ion of the road f a large ■ !,,. stockholders of any proposed line i wjin such opinions il is frequently i tn intelligent advocate of a thorough , • • rnurse to urge such a course — es out ul len some ignorant and lari without a panicle of practical or jca skill or knowledge preposses ;, 0f lhe mass with the supposition j j-moti hand can " lay plank road '■' (, is the case lhe friends of a judi , ,. d belter withhold their money ile ihemselvea to the loss of a large , , *, -• i old in iowa recently built opposition aed to the employment of an engineer ! . esi irieuds of the road and the ! locliholder an engineer by profession ' * "• sd|endid f*ili ies off-red his services '■ they were declined a portion , i vera sleep hill while al a distance ,', , hundred feel a lieauiilul asce.ni offered ! ' it bed va small stream that descen ie rear ofthe bill instead of adopt , ruu*p that science pointed out to pre j ,._,!,: line and as they staled cheap i k was crossed by a bridge eighty ; and i lie road carried over the brow ; , with a grade of one in ten in some , i'he result is that five thousand or six i nf dollars have been squandered and the ' rf oearl worthless as an evidence how i v nj profitableness of plank roads this i ill landing its clumsy construction j _ was'e of money has as we are informed ' leller irom the president of tbe company u a dividend of twenty live percent in our liaiaiea e include " engineering as a por nol lhe expense and allow enough so as to n ire tht services of thorough bred engineers , chain curriers or rod men n<r sub con mors on other roads passing themselves up j lie public where ihey are not known as .. engineers pay well and have good en n,.,.r7 and money will be saved another point of vital importance is a right grade no poin i involves the question of utility to r public ni'ire fully than thai of proper grade is ili'-rel'ore very important in laying out a , nk 11 id in selecl thai route having the st even surface the advantages ofa plank , | mat be entirely lost it in laying out the ,. . lue i egaid is nol paid to the grade it ,, mechanique industiielle we find jiw giving the relative resistance irom fric is fur wheels in motion on a plane as foi ts osiroadof saud and gravel one sixteenth ibe load oo a broken stone road in good order one fenleenth of ihe load du u broken stone road in ordinary condi d,one i wen ty filth of lhe load un i fiavcmt'iii one filty fourth of a load oo sawed oak plank one ninety-eighth ofa i'i t in aide memoir de mecanique we i ibe experiment of moi in elaborately de ■ [ is follows : rof'heroad carts with trucks dili large of two gences wheels tons small wheels five tons ' covered with grav s'e inches ihick 1-12 1-9 1-8 i wni gravel 1-16 1-11 1-10 idwlideanh road 1-41 1-29 1-2c th macadamized v 1.75 1.55 1.48 " md dusty road 1 -.">:, 1-38 1-34 vj 1-38 1-24 1-21 * - p ruts 1-19 1-14 1-2 nt 1-90 1-65 1-57 ■ ii 1-69 1-5(1 1-44 ■ 1-98 1-68 1-64 riwii ihe diversity of opinion among writers the proper average estimate ofthe useful '"'-' ol a horse — by fixing ihe grade at one in wiyone and supposing the horse to be pass ■ '■" rale of two miles per hour equal lo ! wife force of one hundred and sixty six ' v by placing ihe resistance at 1 go ol lhe i '' **• the common average we will lind the tof the horse lo be 2.700 pounds or 10 ! ; *• as the load ofa tour-horse team — ; tillers fixes the power of a horse al two | mids wiih a speed of two and a half ! 1*1 hour ; m sauver al one hundred and p j-nine pounds with a velocity of three i hour moore an english writer at | 1 pounds wiih a velocity of eight miies per continued for ten hours tredgold's ] e is or six hours niv per hour 100 pounds ■ per hour 1*25 do * per hour 83 do , taper hour 413 2 3 do '"'!''' celebrated engineer irom expe . * n*1 fifty two teams or one hundred ' or horses sa\s : the mean force ' ") each horse is one hundred and six e round at two and a half miles per l , se experiments were faiily made , s,1s ol ihe common breed used l»y i ■•'.'■ 1 ( ' ' nese numbers may be considered a urate measure of the force actually . ' y norses at a plough and which they : h e'°do w'uhout injury for many weeks i'i'iuice required ofa horse in plough ' '■ on a good plank road with a grade ! , il.v haul 3.2g0 pounds and with ' trtfo * y-one 2,500 pounds assuming \ '"; '^ resistance on a well laid plank , '' * 93 we have ihen a good founda ) estimates required this is cer ■ * ' 6ry favorable view of the subject and i t ' "" road first comes into use re , bk j e modification lis best period we *» us'edi l brs surface of he l,l**"k has i lhe8 ons enough to reduce every thing *'■*< wild*"'1 degree °' b0'-di-y i'1 hardness * pine °' lncrea8e8 he resistance good yel fcioeioh • we lil-k ffe1 a resistance of rj j ci'press one in seventy-three "*•' sracle °* e -" wemy flb lj;uj **••' ol course determine the weight portion i \ re8.*8*ance from gravity being in ''* e size of ihe angle of inclination the carolina watchman j j brunee ) > keep a check upon all your editor 4 proprietor ) rulers ( new series uo this a!fd llbektt is safe < gen i harrison ( volume viii number 26 salisbury n c thursday october 30 185lt will be one twentieth of the weight lo which the lesistance from friction being added gives 94 1,^.00 or 643 10 000 ol the load forthe ag ! giejjate resistance in overcoming the ascent thus a weight of sixty four pounds suspend j ed over a pulley would drag 1,000 pounds fixed j upon wheels up an ascent of 1 in 21 upon a ■ plank road we may assume that the resist ) ance from friction on the macadamized road ; compared with the plank road is as three to one or one tenth of the weight that the rises to wnich such roads have lo be accommodated \ are at times one to eiyht and we have one ! tenth tonne-eighth — eighteen-eightieths ofthe load for the general resistance one thousand '< pounds therefore to be drawn over such a road \ would require a weight of iwo hundred and twenty five pounds suspended over a pulley — ; the advantages possessed therefore by lhe plank road over the other would be as sixty lour pounds is lo two hundred and twenty-five j with a grade of one in twenty one six hor j ses or mules could draw sixty barrels of flour ] or thirty bales of hemp or cotton and by redu i cing lhe grade from one in twenty one to one j in thirty six mules or horses would be able lo draw seventy lour barrels of flour or thirly-se ven bales of hemp one thing should never be forgotten in lay j ing out grades namely : hat it is advisable and sometimes economy to make a detour of \ considerable extent or to cut through heavy j work rather than attempt to carry a road over an ascent of any great extent wherein the grade is under one in sixteen animals can by ex traordinary exertions draw a load up an as cent with a grade of one lo twelve and even under ; but is it not evident thai it is an impos sibility to convey a heavier load over lhe entire length of the road than can be dragged upon the steep accents hence the folly ol pursu | ing a pernicious course in the first sta^e of operations on a plank road seeing that an j easy ascent permits lhe passage of much hea vier loads than where the grade is unfavorable should a lew thousand dollars more be expen ded upon a good grade it will in the end prove the wisdom and propriety of such a course drainage after a good grade the next question of mo ment is complete and thorough drainage however excellent the grade and admirably weil performed the work on a road may be if ihe drainage is in complete much ofthe utility of ihp road is lost we urge it as a subject ol vital importance to drain well whatever the cost may lie to effect this let lhe ditches on either side of the road be al least lhree leet deep and with true slopes outlets for the water should be provided wherever a conven ient one can lie found let those outlets have as much descent as possible if the ditchings and outlets be efficient the plank will last much longer and the road be always in better condition where it is difficult on any particular side of the road to obtain an outlet run a culvert under the road if one can be found on the other side the object at all times should be to carry off every drop of rain which may fall on the road the centre ofthe road should be thrown up at least twenty-two inches — the cross section will exhibit a perfect i i ' p[pj!^tm if cross section of flank roads form of lhe road throw away the sods ; let no earth be used but what will afford a firm and solid foundation when it has settled let the light side of the road coming into town be selected as lhe side for planking — the face of the road between the ditches should be twenty feet wide eight feet for the plank and i twelve feet for the earth track when the ( road is evenly thrown up let it then be rolled with a heavy roller this can be made by taking a log three feet or so in thickness cut j it six or eight feet in length peel lhe bark off i and make it tolerably round ; then bore two \ holes two inches in diameter in the ends of the log as near the cenlre as possible ; hew out a pair of stout fils make two pins of dog j wood or ofan equally bard wood leaving heads to the pins bore a hole in each of lhe fils and mortice a cross bar into lhe fils iwo feet from the holes after driving the pin in the centre holes a team may be attached lo the fils or what is belter saw them so as to leave ihem but three fed in length and hitch your team to the middle of the cross bar after a tlmr ough rolling if any place requires more earth let it be supplied if sleepers are used let the ! trenches for them be four and a half feel apart and the sleeper lei it in so as to allow the plank to touch the earth a tendency is now marci j fested to set the use ofsleepers aside entirely for the reason lhat on solid ground they are of no use if any fastening can be used to keep the planks in place without them and in wet and mucky soils the sleepers commonly used are a positive injury from the vibration caused by passing teams this vibration causes a chur ning of the wet soil which is soon washed away from under lhe sleeper and causing a depression in the mad il is nol depth of slee per that is needed — it is width for bearing sleepers have only been useful for keeping the road in shape while il was settling they . add at least 8400 additional cost to the mile j without any adequate utility sufficient to war ' rant their use where ihey can be dispensed with in wet or soft places if the draining has been properly attended to we would recom i mend lhe use of a cheap kind of boards say j winding edge boards from nine lo fifteen inches wide and one to one and a half inches thick we prefer those from lhe fact that they will never vibrate in the ground and not having the depth lo settle that a sleeper has ihey there fore allow the planking at all times lo lay firm ly bedded in lhe soil eight feet has uniformly been deemed a suf j ficient width for roads in the eastern states we think il a mailer of doubt whether our hea vy western and southern teams of six horses or > mules and frequently six yoke of cattle will find this width a sufficient one particularly when ihey have to gel on the planking afier having had to turn off nine feel might we think answer the purpose from the preva lent opinion entertained by people at large that no skill is required to construct plank roads we anticipate much dissatisfaction in many sections from the ill-advised attempts of persons lo construct such roads without a proper con ception of their requirements we are sorry to see a senator in our legislature in a report otherwise able setting lorth this idea to secure a good road should be tbe aim of all interested and the chief requisite in a plank road being a good and well drained foundation every engineer should therefore feel the importance of this undertaking and endeavor to make his work a monument of skill and judgment rather than a clumsy thing for sen sible men to laugh at * il should be always understood that the loa ded team keeps the road and where two loaded teams meet the team going out from town is the only one that can turn off the track t^ie planked part ofa road should incline three in ches in the entire width of the planking no circumstances will justify laying a plank road in the centre of the roadway — first because in lhat event the plank would be level on the top whereas it is ol the utmost importance to have a slant to lead off the water — and se condly in wet weather especially the one wheel running off on the earth track finds less resistance to cutting than the other consequent ly the weight ofthe load being thrown on that wheel must necessarily increase the weight of the draft and soon cause the earth track to rut up and need repairs a double track is rarely required on any rout actual experience has demonstrated that any arrangement in the building of a plank road whereby the earth settles away from the plank allowing confined air lo exist underneath is latal to the durability ofa road if ihe plank is well bedded in the soil the period at which we may safely set down the duration ot a plank road is if of pine or other soft timber eight years ; oak it is thooghi will last two or three years longer the wear by abrasion is calculated at one fourth of an inch yearly and the plank will last till worn down to one and a quarter inches the plan is adopted in many places of turning the plank over after two or three years wear a slight covering of soil is useful on the plank ing and effectually avoids the dangers sugges ted of stippling of the animal in speaking of single and double tracks mr geddes the dis tinguished new york engineer observes — " great speculative objection was made in the start to but one track ; bul we have now tbe j entire community with us in deciding that on all ordinary roads one track is fully sufficient ihe reason is this : the travel in wet weather is entirely on the plank except lhe turning out of the the light teams ; but they seek the plank again as soon as they gel around the team met or overtaken so that the turn-out track is not cut with any continuous lengthwise ruts and perhaps the wheels of not one team in a hun dred turn-outs will strike the exact curve of another ; consequently in our experience our turn out track being well graded passing the water easily and rapidly from its surface re mains perfectly hard and smooth in concluding we think that we have in general terms shown the advantages of plank roads and believe thai we have shown from reliable data : 1 that plank roads are more easily and cheaply constructed than railroads 2 that ihey are more easily kept in repair are less perishable and yield larger and more certain returns than railroads lo the stockhold ers 3 that produce can be conveyed over them at least twenty-five per cent cheaper and with no greater loss of time than on a railroad 4 thai they are belter able to accommo date the country at large because they can be carried to almost every man's door 5 that irom the material and power used they are peculiarly adapted to our western and southern slales 6 that they create markets at home wher ever ihey reach adding to local wealth and pop ulation ; and generally that they are better adapted to an agricultural country from the fact that they can be constructed and kept in repair easily and lhat farmers and planters can own and manage them so as to make the transient travel pay the expenses of carrying their own produce to market and also to return a hand some dividend besides now in view of these facts and suggestions it must readily occur to every farmer wiihin a reasonable distance of the line of a plank road that he can better afford to take stock in such a company lhan any other of our industrial classes because he can more cheaply pay for his shares — by working them out on the road every head ofa family wiih his learns scrapers shovels and other implements which are al ways at hand in the cultivation dec of his farm could during those leisure limes which every one occasionally enjoys work out from one to a dozen shares according lo his force and prox imity to the road without any serious diversion of his attention from his regular vocation or perceptive detriment to his crops in fine to all classes of farmers no scheme was everde vised thai afforded so rich an assurance of im mediate and positive benefits to hem as the construction ol plank roads in the neighborhood of their farms it is vitally important also lo the business man in towns and cities ; it effectually removes the embargo that frequently for months shots out lhe counlry from the city by reason of bad roads betsy proctor hui.g herself at lhe poor house in this place on thursday morning last there was an incident in the history ol the life of this woman worthy of record which comes to us authentically sustained she had been blind for len years and became so we learn under the following circumstances : when a married woman her husband charged her with inconstancy to the marriage vow she em phalically denied it and upon her knees pray ed god to strike her blind if true immedi ately after she went blind she died by lhe violence of her own hands distracted by the constant apprehension of the further judgments of heaven her appearance in death indica ted a higher destiny than awaited her in this world — fred news from the florida republican st augustine oct ii 1851 the trial of the case of the pampero j for alleged violation of the revenue and i neutrality laws commenced on the 6th j on that day the court merely organized j the taking of testimony was begun on friday the first witness examined was j john king a native of ireland one of the men attached to the expedition who de i parted from new orleans in the pampe ro and arrived with said vessel at cuba but being taken sick on the voyage and thereby disabled he did not land but re ; turned with the pampero to jacksonville j in the latter town king lay some weeks : at the point of death he arrived in a i very destitute condition though his wants 1 were supplied by the charity of ladies of jacksonville his testimony before the ! court is very full and it is thought alone ! ample to prove the violation ofthe laws ; he describes tbe passage of the steamer j her arrival at cuba and identification of | the vessel in question as the one engaged j in the expedition king's evidence occu i pied the whole of friday to-day col h t titus also ofthe ex ! pedition was called his evidence as to the reinforcement from jacksonville and i georgia and the departure ofthe pampe ro from the former place is full and con clusive j.c hemming and capt thomp son of jacksonville occupied the latter | part of to-day in giving evidence which1 j was brief but to the same point the j i court adjourned over to monday when , j testimony will be resumed it is under j j stood that the argument of the case will i be postponed to another sitting of the j court the claim of mr seguir to the pampe ' ro is considered hopeless and there is no very active sympathy in his behalf — though the fact of the testimony against him being mainly from those engaged with him in the cuba expedition and that as it is alleged his all of this world's goods consists in the property of said vessel and that a decision against him will strip him while others have retained a share ofthe cuba effects may independent of any other consideration awaken some public interest in his behalf maj b a putnam of this place and mcqueen mcintosh esq of jacksonville are the present counsel tor mr seguir — g vv call esq dist attorney for the u s some fifteen witnesses are subpasnaed — citizens of jacksonville persons attach j ed to the cuba expedition and others — ! a commission has been forwarded to new york to take the deposition of lieut van vechten ; although the testimony of king renders it almost superfluous the ancient city is favored with the presence of an english countess who takes up her abode in florida the more early to secure a divorce from a somewhat antiquated husband the lady herself being in the bloom and beauty of early woman hood her object requiring a sojourn here for a certain period ; we understand that in the course ofthe winter a bevy of dis tinguished friends are expected from can ada in a yacht ! what a time for the gallantry and hospitality of the agustin ians to display itself a company of can adians with a british yacht paying a vis it away down in florida to an english countess ! what a chance for a yankee yacht to run a race down here to beat the visiting craft if politeness did not forbid it just as a yankee yacht a few weeks ago beat a britisher in a famous race at covves england c d cuttings now is the time to put in cuttings ; al most every tree or shrup will grow from a l cutting if proper care and attention be i given them we have grown pear ap i pies peaches and cherries from cuttings ; and nearly every variety of flowering bush grow from cuttings planted in october — • the soil for cuttings should be mellow and ! rich rich in vegetable matter and as cool ! as possible the great advantage of oc ; tober planting is in tbe roots forming in the fall and winter thereby giving the plant a vigorous start in the spring ena bling it to brave the heat of summer — cutttngs should be placed in the ground horizontally with but t^o buds above the surface and the butt end of the cutting should always rest against the solid earth ; the roots are surer to radiate from the base and once having taken hold will be likely to live lovers of fruits and flow ers try cuttings in october soil ofthe south fruit seeds i such as apple pear plum peach grape c should now be planted if they are kept out of the ground until spring ten to one they never vegetate at all nuts should also now be planted in sections of country where nuts do not abound it is very easy to stock the country with them ; inst plant the seeds this month where rail timber is scarce plant the chestnut and if vou do not live to eat the fruit or plit the rails some one will come alter you that will soil of the south the new sweet potato we made reference the other day to a new variety of the sweet potato believed ! to have been brought from some part ot south america superiority as to size flavor c was claimed for it over all other kinds we suggested that it was propably the west india yam which j grows in most countries and is frequently ! met with in the vegetable market here ! this has brought a note from an esteem ; ed correspondent who knows something | of this new variety and he intimates that i we shall soon have an opportunity our j selves of judging of its merit " the fact j is he says the root is different in growth i and every quality from every one we j have here and i as well as many who j have tasted them view them as entirely . i superior tbey are either in shape of a j thick yam potato or like a turnip ; a great i proportion of the large size is in that form j for my own part 1 consider them the : most elegant root on a table that 1 know | of when prepared as the irish potato ; and j to me they seem a connecting link be tween a fine mealy irish potato and sweet potato — mobile herald maternal influence — during a lecture on popular education recently delivered gov briggs related the following impres sive incident : twelve or fifteen years ago i left wash ington three or four weeks during the spring while at home 1 possessed my self of the letters of mr adams mother and read them with exceeding interest — i remember an expression in one of the letters addressed to her son while yet a boy twelve years of age in europe : says she i would rather see you laid in your grave than you should grow up a profane and graceless boy " after returning to washington i went over to mr adams seat one day and said to him mr adams i have found out who made you !' what do you mean v said he " i replied 1 have been reading the let ters of your mother ?' if i had spoken that dear name to some little boy who had been for weeks away from his dear ! mother his eye could not have flashed more brightly or his face glowed more i quickly than did the eye and face of the \ venerable old man when i pronounced the name of his mother he started up in his peculiar manner and emphatically said " yes ! mr briggs all that is good in me i owe to my mother " oh what a testimony was that from this venerable man to his mother who | had in his remembrance all the scenes in his manhood ! " all that is good in me i owe to my mother " mothers ! — think of ' this when your bright-eyed little boy is about you ! mothers make the first im pression on their children and those im pressions will be the last to be effaced the politeness of paul an old poet has quaintly called jesus the first true gentlemen that ever breathed paul's politeness too must not be overlooked com | pounded as it was of dignity and deference — it appeared in the mildness of the manner in which he delivered his most startling and shat tering messages boih lo jews and heathens ; in bis graceful salutations ; in his winning re i proofs — the excellent oil which did nol break ! the head ; in tbe delicacy of his allusions lo bis \ own claims and services ; and above all in i the calm self-possessed and manly attitude he • assumed before the rulers of his people and the roman authorities in lhe language of peter ! and john to their jihges there is an abrupt ' ness savoring of iheir rude fisherman life and filler for lhe rough echoes of lhe lake of gali j lee than for the tribunals of power but paul while equally bold and decided is far more gracious he lowers his thunderbolt before his adversity ere he launches it his shaft is polished as well as powerful his words to king agrippa — i would lo god lhat not on i ly thou but also all that hear me this day were [ both almost and altogether such as i am ex , | cept these bonds are the must chivalrous ut 1 lerances recorded in history an angel could i not bend more gracefully or assume an alti tude of more exalted courtesy — gilfillan the self-moving carriage — the paris cor i respondent of lhe philadelphia bulletin ina let ! ter says : two years ago i described for an ameri 1 can paper the self-moving carriage of m pro : vost since that lime m p has travelled in it over a great part of france visiting tours ; saumers orleans chartres havre and other places — he is now in paris on his way lo bordeaux he travelr with ease lo him-elf for the force is not the mascular strength ap plied lo pedals or cranks but the weight of his person which puts in movement the machinery on much the same principle with the weight of a clock on ordinary roads ihey are maca damized in france m provost travels from sixty to eighty miles a day the carriage is about six feet by three and lhe machinery not visible from the outside " 4 flesh is grass — bishop hughes in a sermon to his parishioners repeated the quo tation that all flesh is grass the season was lent and a few day afterwards he en countered terence 0*co!lins who appeared to have something on his mind the top of the mornin to yer riverence said terence did i fairly underftand your riverence to say all flesh is grass lasi sunday '* to be sure : you did replied the bishop and you're a j heretic if you doubt it " oh not the bit do i j doubt any thing your riverence says said the 1 wily terence ; " bul if your riverence plaze i wish to know whether in ihis lent lime i could not be after having a small piece otbafe by way i of a salad ?" — sharpe's mag yankee forethonit an acquaintance of ours was up in con necticut one day last winter to visit a friend who was a manufacturer the shaft of the manufacturer's water-wheel had been broken ihat afternoon under tbe great accumulation ol ice and he was in great trouble for be had searched long to rind a suitable stick and he knew not where to find another if he could find one it would be green and unlit for use a ery early in the morning while the day had scarcely dawned the manufacturer and his guest were at the mill to see what should be done a farmer who lived two or three miles off was already looking on as the man ufacturer looked painfully at his catastro phe : • bad break that mr said the far mer es very bad said the manufactur er ' can't mend that stick can you v said the farmer ' no said the manufacturer ' and worst of it is i don't know where to get another ' well said the firmer * 1 guess 1 can tell you where you can rind one ' you can r said the manufacturer ; • where is it .-" • ' well said the farmer ■ thought that shaft would break likely as not some time or other and i had a tree in my woods i thought would make a stick to suit you ; and 1 cut it down and snaked it home and it has been seasoning for more than a year so when 1 heard your shaft was broken i thought i'd come over and let you know ' ou*re jusl the man i wanted to see said the manufacturer if only it was light enough how much do you ask for the stick if it will suit me ?' ' oh i'm sure twill suit ye.or i should'nt a cut it down ; and about the price i guess you and i can agree it's a nice stick you'll see if you've a mind to como over it was some time before the farmer would set a price but at last he guessed one hundred dollars would be about right ' i'll come over and see it alter break fast said the manufacturer he did so and told his vister afterwards that un der the circumstances the stick was worth five hundred dollars to him are not such people able to take care of tbemselves v exckanft paper " my dear mrs jones said mrs brown come here to my bed side i am d)ing and i wish to say a few words to you '• es marm sighed mrs jones " veil mrs jones ejaculated mr brown you and i have had a good many tills in our days and i would now part with you in peace can you forgive me v es marm sobbed mrs jones indeed indeed i can am i forgiven ejaculated mrs brown es marm responded mrs jones vilh diffi culty in consequence of he intensity uf her an guish and then she attempted to weep her way out uf the dying woman's room slop a moment my dear mrs jones said the eipiring mrs brown i've another word or two to say i wish lo have it understood ihat if f gel well every thing goes back and we stand on lhe same old ground ' what business was your father said an imperious colonel to a modest looking lieutanant a tobacconist sir ' what a pity he did not make ynu one ' possibly sir and now will ou allow me to ask you a question t certainly what is it ' what was your father t * a gentleman sir ' well then all 1 have to say is that it's a deuced pity he dido make you one it is needless to remark that the colo nel turned tothe right — and left a pcrscrutal man — a xothern paper tells the following eood one : hamilton ofthe mary ville tribune was travelling in the cars the other day from bellefontaine to kenton when he fell in with a decided character he was toler ably drunk let hamilton tell the rest he said he lived in l'rbana ; that the methodists had a great revival there a vear or more ago and that more than a hundred were converted that he had been converted some years before and had joined the church we asked him if he still belonged to it " no said he " they turned me out for the most frivolous thing in the world ; if i'd know'd they'd a turned me out for such a little thing as that i'd never join ed said we " what did you do ?" o nothing — only i bet my horse out ran another fellows i won the money and then got drunk and had two fights that's all and they turned me out for that !"' fine dressing and dexterous dancing remarks a shrewd observer when not subsidiary to the effect of personal beau ty and character are monstrous every girl who dances gracefully should in speaking show lhat she is of graceful and winning nature if she does — if she is silly and simpers — you instinctively feel that her movement is artificial ; that it is the gift of the dancing school not a grace of nature ; you have been deceived and it is never again a pleasure to watch that dancing a cobler has just locai-v himself al spalding and attracts attention wiih the following address outside his shop : surgery per formed upon old boots and shoes by adding of feet making good the legs bind ing lhe broken heaiing lhe wounded altering ihe constitution and supporting the body with new soles no cure no pay advice r:ittig on ihe mosi desperate cases — london week ly news cincinnati october 15 — a fire broke out in the orphan asylum in this city last evening and the whole building was consumed